Definitions for Leuctra

Leuctra Leuc·tra

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IPA: /ˈluk trə/

Leuctra is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in Leuctra (acelrtu).

Definitions for Leuctra

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  1. a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Thebans defeated Spartans here 371 b.c.

Examples for Leuctra

Since the battle of Leuctra the villagers had rebuilt their walls and defied a Spartan army.

This order was used by the celebrated Epaminondas at the battles of Leuctra and Mantinea.

At Leuctra, Epaminondas diminished, by one-half, the depth of his men; he formed square phalanxes of fifty men to a side.

Antalcidas continued in favour with Artaxerxes, until the annihilation of Spartan supremacy at Leuctra diminished his influence.

At Leuctra, it simply acted to the right and took the enemy in the flank and in reverse.

After Leuctra, if the point of view is no longer exclusively Spartan, the narrative of events is hardly less incomplete.

Then after the battle of Leuctra the Thebans acquired paramount influence.

After this achievement he advanced from the seaboard and encamped in Leuctra on Thespian territory.

In 371 he led the relief force which was sent to aid the survivors of the battle of Leuctra.

No fewer than forty small townships were merged in the new city, which was founded immediately after the battle of Leuctra.

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